在欧洲，越来越多的公司和公共部门建设所有者正在寻求实现净零碳目标，新的工具正在新兴的新工具中评估和管理新的和现有结构中的体现和运营。芬兰团队正在将碳数据与结构设计集成在一起，而英国公司则提供一站式服务，用于改造现有资产。

"I’ve been waiting for [something like this] for as long as I've been in the industry," says Kari Nöjd, sustainability technology manager at engineering firm Sweco Rakennetekniikka Oy, which is designing a roughly $30-million extension to a sports center in Imarat, Finland.

Nöjd的热情是一种使设计师能够立即理解其结构和材料选择的碳影响的系统。Imarat项目正在驾驶系统。

Instead of focusing only on cost and schedule, more owners also are "asking which alternative has the lowest embodied carbon, and that is something structural designers need to be able to answer," he says.

Speedy Assessments

Sweco helped to integrate digital design packages from software firm Trimble Inc. with the vast database of construction material embodied carbon levels held by the Finnish company One Click LCA.

公司总裁帕努·帕萨宁（Panu Pasanen）表示，此前，设计师在电子表格中编制了项目碳数据，并将其上传到公司。他补充说，将设计软件与数据库集成为“快10倍……这使人们可以更频繁地，更早地和更多项目进行[碳分析]”。新利18备用网址

Pasanen说，一键单击LCA可以生成结果报告，以显示符合60多个可持续性标准和规格（例如美国LEED）。

The firm and Trimble launched the system in 2016, "but the structural engineering profession ... was not sensitized to the need and opportunities," recalls Pasanen. "The market has changed quite significantly since then."

随后对Trimble的Tekla设计和详细软件以及其协作平台进行了重新启动。帕萨宁说，现在两家公司正在培训八个国家 /地区的用户。

Reducing embodied carbon can have a big effect long term "We are roughly doubling global building stock in the next 40 years," says Pasanen. "This is going to create carbon emissions that equate approximately to six years of global energy carbon emissions ... [and] it's all up front," he adds.

'Dramatic Effects'

可持续性解决方案副总裁Dietmar Grimm补充说，在设计过程的早期为结构设计师提供了信息。“如果您不尽早将这些信息提供给[设计师]，那么在许多领域，人们就不会做到。”

Sweco的Nöjd说，随着其设计接近完成，Imatra Sports Hall将成为芬兰最初的“试图达到碳中立性”的建筑物之一。他补充说，到2025年到期的芬兰立法将要求新建筑物的所有者和大多数重大翻新，以证明遵守要求的碳足迹限制。

But embodied carbon is only part of the story. "Decarbonizing existing buildings is probably where the majority of carbon abatement is going to need to come from," says Stuart McLaren, director for net zero infrastructure at U.K.-based Atkins, part of the SNC-Lavalin Group.

他补充说，今天存在于2050年的大多数建筑环境，“这些建筑物中有50-70％将需要中等重新改造才能提供零净的未来。”

为了解决这一不断增长的需求，阿特金斯将内部专业知识，工具和碳数据库汇总为称为脱氨基工艺的新服务。

The package basically aims to establish the existing emissions of an owner's portfolio of buildings, and benchmark them with reference to industry equivalents. The Atkins team then develops a strategic and detailed investment plan, including costs, schedule and other factors.

"For each building ... it also will show you what your program of delivery should look like and it's also providing all cost information you would need to be able to develop your ... business case. That's where we find our clients’ biggest challenges are," says McLaren.

他说：“通常，在20多个建筑物左右的情况下，它可以更好地奏效。”他补充说，大部分排放量的投资组合中通常很小一部分。在这种情况下，团队可以“很快说明您要集中精力的地方”。

UK Out in Front

对于这项服务，英国“可能是领先的市场，”迈凯轮说，公共部门采取了主动权。去年夏天，阿特金斯（Atkins）由英国政府物业机构任命为六年来管理其400多个建筑物的可持续性改善工作计划。他补充说：“我们建立方法的方式……最终形成了脱接生物学概念的核心。”

迈凯轮还认为，对中东和澳大利亚私营部门市场的服务越来越兴趣。他补充说，该公司正在与“美国和加拿大的一系列客户”进行交谈，尽管这两个国家的公共部门“有点落后”。

在制定脱碳策略时，迈凯轮渴望摆脱传统的采购路线，并采用“更多基于结果的商业和合同模型”。

With greater confidence in the data collection, particularly in the baseline and benchmarking, the supply chain can be engaged collaboratively, he hopes. "We can put our own skin in the game to help drive a much stronger partnership approach."